Totals
- Total revenue
- $55,668
- Total expenses
- $49,198
- Contributions and grants received
- $48,668
- Grants paid
- $0
- Program service revenue
- $7,000
- Membership dues (line 3)
- $0
- Investment income (line 4)
- $0
- Gain or loss on sale of assets (line 5c)
- $0
- Gaming and fundraising events, net (line 6d)
- $0
- Gross profit on inventory sales (line 7c)
- $0
- Other revenue (line 8)
- $0
- Total assets, end of year
- $28,816
- Total liabilities, end of year
- $0
- Net assets or fund balances, end of year
- $28,816
- Program service expenses (Part III)
- $22,000
Program services were 44.7% of total expenses calculated — Part III's total program service expenses over total expenses, both as filed.
Mission and programs · 2025
Primary exempt purpose
Telling My Story is a non-profit organization that breaks down walls between socially isolated individuals and their communities through collaborative creative engagement. We use theater and the arts as a medium for social reflection and relationship building. Our programs develop self-awareness and communication skills with populations behind visible and invisible social walls such as those created by incarceration, addiction and poverty. Through writing and performing, people behind walls are empowered to reclaim their own voices and strengths.
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Polarization and Isolation was conducted with a dozen participants in Feb-Mar 2025 as a way to support emotional resilience in dealing with stress from the Nov 2024 election. A public performance, attended by several dozen people, was conducted at the Bugbee Senior Center in White River Junction Vermont.
Expenses $3,100
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In June 2025, Telling My Story conducted its annual Housing Insecurity workshop. Participants included community members with personal experience of housing insecurity and those who provide direct support services. The workshop culminated in a public performance at the Unitarian Universalist Church in Norwich.
Expenses $8,400 · Grants $5,000
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At the end of Sept 2025, Telling My Story ran a program that served as the kick-off to a conference sponsored by the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Center for the Advancement of Rural Health Equity, with a public performance on Sept 30. Particpants included both users and providers of rural health services.
Expenses $10,500 · Grants $7,500
As filed on the 2025 return.
Listed in Part IV
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Emily Eisner
President
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 4
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John Steidl
Treasurer
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 4
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Ivy Schweitzer
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Tekeeta Ramirez
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Kim Knowlton-Young
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Maddie Levangie
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Kathy Treem
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
Compensation is as filed in Part IV of the Form 990-EZ: compensation, contributions to benefit plans, expense account, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total.
Grants on this return
No itemized grants to organizations on this return.
Provenance
- Return type
- form_990_ez
- Tax year
- 2025
- Filed
- 9 May 2026
- IRS schema version
- 2025v4.0
- Source object
- 202601319349202020
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